Sash-weight.



PATENTED AUG. 22, 1905.

J. R. N. GURTIN.

SASH WEIGHT.

AllLIOATION FILED MAR. 1. 1905.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

SASH-WEIGHT.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Aug. 22, 1905.

Application filed March 7,1905- Serial No. 248,307.

To (0 1071/0171, 11?; may concern.-

Be it known that 1, JAMES ROBERT NOBLE CURTIN, a citizen of the United States, residing at Alexandria, in the county of Alexandria and State of Virginia, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Sash-Weights, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to improvements in sash-weights, and more particularly to sectional sash-weights for window-sash.

Builders and dealers in building material dealing in the ordinary sash Weights are obliged to keep a large stock on hand comprising a great variety of different sizes and weights in order to be able to supply the varying demands of the trade, and even when this is done it often happens that the sashweight called for cannot be supplied because the sash-weights in stock are either too light or too heavy, and in consequence a sashweight of the desired weight has to be cast to order, which causes much inconvenience and loss of time.

The object of my invention is to obviate the above disadvantages by providing a sasl1 weight made in separatesections with means for easily and quickly connecting and disconnecting any number of said sections to form a weight of any desired weight, so that the dealer need only keep in stock a limited number of sash-weight sections from which sash-weights may be made up and in this way avoid the necessity of keeping a large stock of sash-weights comprising the various sizes for which there is likely to be a demand.

It also has for its. object to provide conneeting means for the sash-weight sections of such a construction that said sash-weight sec tions will be securely locked together and cannot become separated or disconnected when in operation in the sash-weight box.

It further has for its object to provide a sash-weight which is exceedingly simple, inexpensive, and durable in construction and which can be manufactured at very little cost and easily adapted to windows of all descriptions.

My invention consists in the several features and combination of features, as here inafter more fully described and claimed.

Referring to the drawings, Figure 1 is a side view of two of thesash-weight sections, showing them in the position they are placed preparatory to being connected. Fig. 2 is a side view of two of the sash-Weight sections,

showing them in the position when they are partially connected; Fig. 3, a similar view to Fig. 2, showing the sash-weight sections connected and locked in position; Fig. 4, a front view of a portion of two sash-weight sections, showing them connected and locked in position; Fig. 5, a top plan view of the upper portion of one of the sash-weight sections; Fig. 6, a bottom plan view of the lower portion of one of the sash-weight sections, and Fig. 7 a horizontal section on the line :0 a: of Fig. 1.

In the drawings, in which like numerals of reference denote like parts throughout the several views, 1 represents the sashweight sections, which may be made round, square, hexagonal, octagonal, or any other shape desired and may be cast, molded, or otherwise formed of iron, steel, lead, or other suitable material. The upper end of each sashweight section is reduced. in size by beveling the same on opposite sides, as at 2, and is provided with a neck 3 at the center above said beveled portion, which has an eye 4 therethrough and a tapering or wedgeshaped head 5. On each side of the front portion 6 of said neck an upwardly-slanting recess 7 is formed, which extends from the outer circumference of the body of the sash.- weight section to the eye 4. The rear portion 8 of the neck 3 is much larger in crosssection than the front portion 6 and forms a rounded abutment 9.

The lower end of each sash-weight section is provided withtwo downwardly-depending lugs 10, the lower ends 11 of which curve laterally inward, as at 12, forming a contracted open slot 14, the sides of the wall of which flare outwardly at 15 at each end, and an opening 16, into which said slot leads. The purpose of making the ends of the slot 14 flare outwardly is to insure the easy insertion of the lower end of one sash-section on the head of another sash-section, and the purpose of the enlarged rear portion 8 of the neck is to provide an abutment or stop for the lugs 10.

In connecting one sash-weight section with another one of the sections has to be placed at an angle with the other section before it can be slid 011 the same by reason of the slanting recesses 7, and after the section has been slid entirely on and hung in its normal vertical position. in alinement with the other section it will be impossible to detach said sections without again placing one of said sections at an angle with the other section, which is an impossibility when in the sashweight box, as the space is too limited, and therefore there is no chance of accidental detachment of the sections.

Although I propose to construct each of the sashweight sections with an eye at the upper end for the purpose of attaching the sash cord or rope to for the sake of convenience, yet it is only absolutely necessary to have the top sash-weight section in each series provided with an eye.

The manner of connecting the sash-weight sections together is as follows? One of the sash-weight sections is placed at an angle to the section it is to be connected with, its lower end being placed just opposite the slanting recesses 7, as shown in Fig. 1. It is then slid onto the head of the section, as shown in Fig. 2, the lugs 10 traveling in said grooves until the lugs come in contact with the abutment 9, Then the weights are attached to the sash-rope and hung in the sash-weight box, which causes them to be brought into vertical alinement and the lugs to engage the head of the opposite section and locks the two sash-weight sections securely together, as shown in Fig. 3.

What I claim is I 1. A sash-weight provided with a reduced neck having an eye therein and slanting re cesses in each of its outer faces leading to said eye, substantially as described.

2. A sash-weight made in sections, one section provided with a reduced neck having slanting recessses in its outer faces, and the other section provided with inwardly-projecting lugs designed to engage the recesses in said neck, substantially as described.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

JAMES ROBERT NOBLE CURTIN.

l/Vitnesses hilARION R. RODGERS, W. O. BLAOKWOOD. 

